Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings

Re:Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings by onetimemanytime on Sunday December 30, 2018 @02:27AM (#18787936)

>>No, I dont think the medical care is that much of a big factor. I think what matters for countries involved is "family care". I.e. how much are your siblings/relatives/kids going to take care of you as you get old. Compare this with the survival of people who are left alone in nursing homes, they lose many years of their potential lives.

Isn't Japan notorious for doing the opposite? At least it made the news....

"Several reasons for the increase in kodokushi have been proposed. One proposed reason is increased social isolation. A decreasing proportion of elderly Japanese people are living in multi-generational housing and are instead living alone.[6] Elderly people who live alone are more likely to lack social contacts with family and neighbors, and are therefore more likely to die alone and remain undiscovered." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodokushi

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Re:Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings by ekianjo on Sunday December 30, 2018 @05:21AM (#18788433)

> Isn't Japan notorious for doing the opposite? At least it made the news....

It's not because it makes the news that it's quantitatively important. Murders make the news in Japan the whole time yet Japan is one of the safest countries around.

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